Fujita scale Essays

“I just remembered while running to the bathroom, the windows all blew in and the second my dad closed the door everything went to grey. No idea how long after that I regained consciousness, but I finally woke up in the rubble of the house and everything was just gone” said by Scott Offerman as he recollects horrific memories of the day his house went up by the Plainfield tornado of 1990. On August 28th, 1990 an F5 tornado had blown through Plainfield, Illinois with no warning or sirens. Scott Offerman’s

The Fujita Tornado Scale was invented by Mr. Tetsuya Theodore Fujita, a scientist who observed weather. F-0, the weakest tornado on the Fujita scale, can just snap off tree branches. However, F-5, the strongest on the Fujita Tornado scale, can destroy an entire town. Before the scale was invented, scientists would rate tornadoes by size. This system wasn’t very efficient because sometimes the

Imagine being outside in a gigantic thunderstorm with wind speeds up to 300 mph. Suddenly, violent, rotating columns of air extend from the sky, reaching all the way down to the ground. The funnel shaped twisters starts destroying large buildings and homes alike. They uproot trees, and vehicles race through the air for miles. These channels of intense wind are called tornados. In an average year, 1000 tornadoes are reported nationwide. On the afternoon of Friday, April 14th, a supercell thunderstorm

A lot of people bicker about which is worse, hurricanes or tornadoes.According to Spencer Adkins(Meteorologist), it depends on what your comparing.Although hurricanes are larger storms and stay on land longer, tornadoes happen more often than hurricanes. All tornadoes have their own size, shape ,and color. Do you know how long a common tornado lasts? Well I have the answer, a typical tornado only lasts for a few minutes.Hurricanes have male and female names, but at one point they only named hurricanes

Hurricane Mississippi Tornado 1971 According to the Oxford English Dictionary, I found a tornado to be a mobile destructive vortex of violently rotating winds, having the appearance of a funnel shaped cloud, and advancing beneath a large storm system. "Tornado” ( Oxford English Dictionary) In February 1971 the Hurricane School was destroyed by a winter tornado. A winter tornado is more destructive due to them seeming to be a thunder storm although a tornado. Although a tornado can be life threatening

A spinning funnel of wind is a tornado that is like a giant vacuum. Weather causes tremendous storms. During a violent thunderstorm, a tornado can be formed when hot and cold air mix together in the lower atmosphere. A tornado touches down on the ground, sucking up all the wind in the air. It is like a giant vacuum. The intensity of the tornado will increase to five levels. Tornadoes can touch down to the ground like a giant vacuum and cause massive destruction. Tornadoes are common in midwest, but

successful lives. Resiliency scale for children and adolescents was developed by Sandra Prince-Embury in the year 2006. The scale was designed to systematically identify and quantify core personal qualities of resiliency in youth, as expressed in their own words about their experience. The purpose of the scale is to provide theoretically and empirically sound assessment of core characteristics of personal resiliency in children and adolescents of (ages 9-18)

Every year a countless number of people are injured from the game of football. These people obtain all types of injuries from shoulder dislocations, to torn ACLs, to concussions. Many of these injuries are from the rules of the game and the way the sport is played. This is why it is necessary for the rules of football to be changed. The main reasons they should be changed are because the game is resulting in injuries and deaths, negative long-term health consequences for players, and children

ratio. The Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale (1994; See Appendix B for Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale) is similar to a five-point Likert scale, with the exception of being a four-point scale. The scales are ordinal because although they cannot be quantitatively measured, the qualitative questions can then be put into quantitative categories (Noia & Tripodi, 2008). Some of the scales are ratio because it has a true zero (Noia & Tripodi, 2008). The four-point scale has four answers, which then are divided

Below) and are set up as 1st-3rd-5th-7th. Blues use chords which are solemnly heard in Pop, Hip Hop, or Rap, Blues uses 9th chords. 9th chords do not have a root note, a 1st, they only have a 3rd, 5th, 7th, and the 9th, which is the second note of the scale, and set up as 9th-5th-7th-3rd. 9th chords have the 9th in the base of the note and use different intervals because of it, 9th at bottom, the 5th four intervals above the 9th, the 7th three intervals above the 5th, and the 3rd four intervals above

Construct Validation process including principal component analysis and final description of the factors of the new scale. The aim of the study was to develop a new tool that would be able to measure the readiness of practitioners entering and participating in an interprofessional team effectively. The initial objective was to determine if an instrument, the new Readiness to Collaborate Scale, could in fact measure interprofessional team readiness and; secondly,

This chapter is divided into three sections. The first section of this chapter reviews the World Culture Theory of Globalization and second section reviews the Cultural Capital Theory, to offer a theoretical explanation for tourist food consumption. Both these theories are related to food consumption and thus provides a strong build for theoretical and empirical objectives of the present study. The third section is devoted to various other studies highlighting the characteristics, significance and

The word “ballet” brings to mind words such as “grace” or “beauty” when heard by many people. The definition itself states that it is a form of dance that uses precise steps and light, graceful motions. This definition was in the minds of those who attended the Théâtre des Champs-Élysèes in May 1913, but rather they were greeted with the complete opposite. When Igor Stravinsky’s ballet Rite of Spring opened, the audience was greeted with swift, chaotic music that quickly became a whirlwind of sound

Title: Gun Safety Rules and Tips Guns are inherently dangers and should be handled with care. Improper use, storage and care of firearms leads to unintentional deaths, injury or damage. If you are a firearm owner, a potential gun owner or a curious about the use and effects of guns, then learning about gun safety is essential. Gun safety rules are the recommendations given to minimize or eliminate accidental or negligent discharge and the consequences of malfunctioning firearms. They also impart

In the vast African Savanna, many people are sleeping at night in the middle of it all, cozy near a campfire. A twig breaks, and one of the men wake up, who later decides to go back to sleep. The sound comes again more frequently, which is when everyone has woken up. On the southern side, they see a moving animal just walking in circles around them. Everyone is afraid, but they do not know what it is… until is roars. The beast is a lion, and all of the men are sure they are going to die. This is

INTRODUCTION Have you ever experienced a hurricane? Well, if you haven’t, you don’t want to go through one, and if you have, you don’t want to go through another one. A name you can also call a hurricane by is known as a “Cyclone”. If you continue reading you will learn some information about hurricanes like, what a hurricane is, what causes a hurricane, how long can a hurricane last, hurricane safety tips, naming hurricanes, and hurricane season. What Is A Hurricane? Hurricanes are gigantic

Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson are based on a true story about tragedy. This book discusses the fate of people’s lives left in the hands of Mother Nature. It shares the start of Isaacs’s life as a scientist and how he, like many at the time, believed in technology and science over nature. It is hard to say what kind of changes Isaac went through. A man who loved studying weather and climate, only to watch as weather tore his family apart. This

The swell window for my surf break, Zeto Point, was difficult to calculate since it is located in a bay. However, I was able to estimate the swell window from the mouth of the bay where swell would be able to enter. Zeto Point is located at latitude 51o54’16.58”N and longitude 176o33’28.39”W. Being located in a bay, there are several obstructions to wave energy, the coordinates tangent to the northern obstruction are latitude 52o04’37.96N and longitude 176o12’20.72”W, this point is located 32.068

SMOKY CHIPOTLE SALSA (Salsa con Chipotle) Chipotle chile peppers are smoked jalapeños. They look very different from the green peppers you know and love because the jalapeños are red and ripe before being turned into delicious chipotle peppers. You can find them dried or canned in adobo sauce. These peppers are characterized as “medium” in heat, but when you use as many as I do in this recipe, they can get a bit spicy. Serve this salsa with a side of chips or over grilled meats. MAKES

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was one of the most well-known composers of the romantic period. In 1826, he enrolled as a student at the Conservatoire de musique et de declamation in Paris, where he began his musical journey. At this conservatory, he proceeded to create some of his most famous compositions such as his Symphonie Fantastique (Samson, 2007: ). This renowned composition was dedicated to Harriet Smithson, whom he later got married to. The program of the Symphonie Fantastique concerns Berlioz